Founded in 2018 in Kemeraltı, İzmir, Hayy Open Space is launching the Hayy Open School project in 2026, alongside four exhibitions it will host throughout the year. The project will offer year-long theoretical, practical, online, and in-person classes. Following the introductory meeting to be held at Hayy Open Space on January 10 at 3:00 PM, the program will begin its first event on January 17 with Shall We Meet? w/ Taner Ceylan.
Conceived primarily as an open experimental space that brings together alternative modes of thinking and practice for art students and artists at the early stages of their careers, Hayy Open School promises a year-long experiential and learning program composed of multiple modules. The program is developed through collaborations with academics and artists who are active in the cultural field in İzmir and beyond.
Positioned as a program that accompanies academic education by proposing ideas and models of existence beyond established systems and frameworks, Hayy Open School aims to offer artists and emerging artists alternative ways of thinking about coexistence and collaboration. By opening up new spaces within the cultural ecosystem, the program seeks to facilitate new fields, encounters, and forms of cooperation.
In addition to the Representation, Contact, and Creative States sections—where theoretical and practical courses will address both academic and non-academic forms of knowledge needed in the field of arts and culture—the program will also create a space of encounter through events held under the title Shall We Meet?. These events will bring together cultural actors from İzmir with one another and with practitioners from outside the city, fostering mutual exchange and interaction. Throughout the program, the upper floor of Hayy Open Space will transform into a changing, evolving, and dynamic exhibition space, envisioned as a site where learnings from the program can be put into practice.
There are no prerequisites for general participation in Hayy Open School. For program details, please click here, and registration can be completed by filling out the form at the link below.
We would like to thank Bor Sanat for its support of the Shall We Meet? program, the SAHA Sustainability Fund for Independent Initiatives, for its overall support, and the Hitay Foundation for covering a portion of the copyright fees.
*Please note that program language is mostly in Turkish.
Program registration form:
https://forms.gle/9wdcFWsRGGL4UWJg6